ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,260, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Configurable address decoder" was invented by Dan Saad (Herut, Israel), Guy Nakibly (Kedumim, Israel), Lev Vaskevich (Hertsliya, Israel) and Aviv Bonomo (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An address decoder for a system is disclosed that can be used for different source nodes in the system. Each address decoder can be configured to perform a plurality of decode methods that can be customized for each source node. A first decode method can be used to determine a target node from a plurality of target nodes based on a destination address of the t...